Biology:REV3L

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Protein reversionless 3-like (REV3L) also known as DNA polymerase zeta catalytic subunit (POLZ) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the REV3L gene.[1][2][3]

The Rev3 subunit interacts with Rev7 to form Pol ζ, a B family polymerase. Pol ζ lacks 3' to 5' exonuclease activity and is a moderate fidelity polymerase. It cannot add nucleotides across from DNA lesions, yet it can extend from primers with terminal mismatches. This makes Pol ζ very important in translesion synthesis (TLS), because it can act in concert with other TLS polymerases that can add across the lesion to complete the bypass of the lesion. Most polymerases have difficulty extending mismatches because they cannot bind properly to the mismatched DNA. So rather than the cell dying, it can survive albeit with a mutation that may or may not be deleterious, so it is believed that Pol ζ is a driving force of evolution.[citation needed]

Interactions

REV3L has been shown to interact with MAD2L2.[4][5]

References

  1. "A human homolog of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae REV3 gene, which encodes the catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase zeta". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 95 (12): 6876–80. Jul 1998. doi:10.1073/pnas.95.12.6876. PMID 9618506. 
  2. "Alternative splicing, genomic structure, and fine chromosome localization of REV3L". Cytogenet Cell Genet 83 (1–2): 18–20. Mar 1999. doi:10.1159/000015157. PMID 9925914. 
  3. "Entrez Gene: REV3L REV3-like, catalytic subunit of DNA polymerase zeta (yeast)". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=5980. 
  4. "A human REV7 homolog that interacts with the polymerase zeta catalytic subunit hREV3 and the spindle assembly checkpoint protein hMAD2". J. Biol. Chem. 275 (6): 4391–7. February 2000. doi:10.1074/jbc.275.6.4391. PMID 10660610. 
  5. "Interactions in the error-prone postreplication repair proteins hREV1, hREV3, and hREV7". J. Biol. Chem. 276 (38): 35644–51. September 2001. doi:10.1074/jbc.M102051200. PMID 11485998. 

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